Author: Robert J . VandewaterPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385150361
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.
The Tourist, Or Pocket Manual for Travellers
Author: Robert J . VandewaterPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385150361
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.
The Tourist, Or Pocket Manual for Travellers
Author: Vandewater, Robert J.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
The Tourist, or Pocket Manual for Travellers on the Hudson River, the Western and Northern Canals and Railroads, the Stage Routes to Niagara Falls, and Down Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence to Montreal and Quebec
Author: Robert J. VandewaterPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368945181
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
The Tourist, Or Pocket Manual for Travellers on the Hudson River
Author: Robert J. VandewaterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The Tourist, Or Pocket Manual for Travellers on the Hudson River, the Western and Northern Canals and Railroads: the Stage Routes to Niagara Falls
Author: Robert J. VandewaterPublisher: New York : Harper & Bros.
ISBN:
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Charles Tyrrell
Author: George Payne Rainsford JamesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Athens, Its Rise and Fall
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron LyttonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Ernest Maltravers
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron LyttonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Alice, Or, The Mysteries
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron LyttonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The Tourist
Author: Robert VandewaterPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429020105
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 edition. Excerpt: ... Salina, about one mile and a half distant, and emptied into the vats, which occupy nearly 300 acres. The vats are all covered with light roofs, which are moveable at pleasure, to admit the rays of the sun upon the water, or to' prevent the rain from mingling with it. The salt is removed from the vats twice or three times in the course of the summer. Salina is a mile and a half north of Syracuse. The first salt spring was discovered at this place by the Indians, from the circumstance of its being visited by deer and other animals. The Oswego Canal commences at this place, the surplus water of which is used for the purpose of forcing (by a powerful hydraulian) the salt water 85 feet up the hill into a large reservoir: It is forced up at the rate of 300 gallons per minute, whence it is conveyed by logs to the factories in the neighbourhood, which amount to 175 within a circuit of 7 miles. The'springs and works all belong to the State, to which the manufacturers pay imposts of 63 cents per barrel of 5 bushels, which are applied, according to the Constitution of the State, towards discharging the Canal debt. The Oswego Canal extends from Onondaga iake to lake Ontario, at Oswego. It includes 20 miles of the Oswego river. The whole distance is 38 miles. Geddes is a small village, 2 miles west of Syracuse. A number of valuable salt springs have been discovered at this place very recently. The manufacturing establishments are within a few rods of the canal. After pursuing its course 7 miles farther, the canal crosses Nine Mile Creek, by means of an aqueduct with two arches, under which the creek flows. Weed's Basin, 15 miles from Syracuse, contains about 60 houses. Auburn is 7 miles south, for which place stage leave daily. The State Prison is...